Happy Birthday Kristy!

Hi all,

It’s birthday time again for one of our Paper Prettie Design Team Members. Today Kristy Ketterlin is a year older, Happy Birthday Kristy. Of course what better way to celebrate than a Birthday Blog Hop Prettie Girl style! As we can't get together to celebrate in person the next best thing is a virtual birthday party .... yahhhhhhhh what fun!

The hop started at Christie Ortman’s blog so if you didn’t start off there you might want to hop on over there now so you don’t miss out on any of the fun!

I thought Kristy might like shoes for her birthday … so I used Paper Pretties “Sassy Shoes” set to create my card. the layout is based on the Mojo Sketch challenge (Mojo115)

Here is the order of the hop:

Christie Ortman

Julie Masse

Jana Weaver

Jackie Rakoski

Christi Thorsen

Frances Byrne (you are here!!!!!!)

Heather Lee-Reppen

Wendy Bond

Jane Matsumoto

Jennifer Greco

Kristy Ketterlin (don’t forget to wish the birthday girl a happy birthday)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the party festivities so far. Now it is time to continue on our birthday blog hop and visit the blog of Heather Lee-Reppen. Don’t forget to wish Kristy a Happy Birthday when you reach her blog.

Recipe:

Stamps: Sassy Shoes – Paper Pretties;

Paper: White; Red; Pink; DP

Other: Black Ink; Fancy Tags Die; Circle Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

Club Anya Holiday Blog Hop!

Hi everyone,

Today is Club Anya’s Holiday Blog Hop, and I thought it was about time I signed up to participate in one of their customer blog hops,  after all I have tons of their stamps so why not!

The list of participating blogs is posted on the Club Anya blog so be sure to hop on over there so that you can hop around to all the other blogs that are participating in this hop, I am sure there are some amazing creations for you to see out there in blog land today.

To participate we had to create a holiday themed card that uses Anya or Ian stamps. I decided to use both Anya & Ian to create my card …. mine are digital stamps Miss Anya Autumn and My Guy Autumn.

 

I decided to make a Double Side Stair step card for today’s blog hop. I have seen lots of Side Stair step cards around the place and hadn’t gotten around to creating one even though I have made a few Stair step cards and recently I discovered what I am calling the Double Side Stair Step card … I am not sure if this is the official name for it, but as it has a side step on both sides it works for me.

Here is another pic of my card …. the Christmas tress and Santa hats are both brads. I attached the trees onto my card the normal way you attach brads, but I wanted to ensure that the hats were positioned in the correct place so I cut off the prongs and attached them to the heads using foam tape.

Well that is all for me … don’t forget to visit Club Anya’s blog so that you can continue on the hop.

Recipe:

Stamps: Miss Anya Autumn & My Guy Autumn Digital Stamps – The Greeting Farm

Paper: White; Red; Green; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; Modern Label Tag Punch & Die; Christmas Tree & Santa Hat Brads; Red Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

 

The Season Of Giving!

Hi everyone!

Well it is time for another challenge over on The Pink Elephant blog.  This week the challenge is Theme challenge with the theme being Christmas or Winter.

As you can see I decided to go with Christmas, although looking at how she is dressed I guess it covers winter too although for me Christmas are hot summer days not cold winter ones! For my card today uses a digital image from Squigglefly …. this one is called “Season of Giving” which was one that was designed by Robin Willis. This is such a cutie.

I decided to change up the image slightly but printing it out fairly large and cutting the image out of the square and then mounting it onto a circle. I cut up one of the sentiments in the square individually and attached it to the lower part of my card.

Don’t forget to check out The Pink Elephant blog to see what the other design team members came up with this week.

Recipe:

Stamps: Season of Giving Digi Stamp – Squigglefly

Paper: White; Pink; Purple; Blue; Eskimo Kisses DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Snowflake Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Pink Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Oh Christmas Tree!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your weekend! Today I have one more card to share with you all using the new Christmas Cuties unmounted plate available from Alota Rubber Stamps …. I just love this set!!!!!

Recipe
Stamps: Christmas Cuties – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Pale Green; Dark Green; DP

Other: Black Ink; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; MS Star Border Punch; Circle Nestabilities; Foam Tape; Copics

A Quilt and a Snowdog!

Happy Saturday everyone!

My card today is for my regular Saturday challenge I have with my “Crazy” friends over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. This week our challenge hostess for the month, Joanne Grzelak has asked us to “Focus on Snowflakes & Snowmen”.

This week I have again got more then one card to share with you for this challenge …. yes I went a little crazy with snowmen …. well really a snow dog and a snow women if you want to get technical hehe!

I discovered this cute Snowdog image earlier in the week, and as soon as I saw it I feel in love with it … it is sooooo different! Fortunately this is a digi stamp which meant I could get it straight away and play … don’t you just love instant gratification *smile* .   Anyway this is from a new (to me) digi site called Designed2Delight.

I found this cute “Quilted Snowman” over on the KLM Digital Designs web site the other week and just had to purchase it to use for my card. Of course I also added snowflakes to my card using Martha Stewarts snowflake punch.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

• Barbara Anders
• Cindy Haffner
• Jessica Diedrich
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Joycelyn Turner
• Lori Boyd
• Lynda Benden
• Mercy Kerin
• Robin Willis
• Vicki Garrett

Recipe for Snow Dog:

Stamps: Snowdog – Designed2Delight

Paper: White; Brown; Sage; DP – Kaisercraft

Other: Black Ink; MS Snowflake Punch; MS Snowflake Border Punch; Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Brads; Copics

Recipe For Snow Quilt:

Stamps: Quilted Snowman – KLM Digital Designs

Paper: White; Green; Burgundy; DP - Kaisercraft

Other:  Snowflake Punch; Oval Nestabilities; Green Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Hugs!

Hi everyone,

I have another Alota card to share with you today. This time round I am using Alota Rubber Stamps “Bugs Hugging”. For the layout of my card I used this week’s Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch challenge (MTSC51), however I turned it around to suit the image I wanted to use.

Here is the sketch …. as you can see I have turned it to suit my card so that you can see exactly what I did.

Recipe:

Stamps: Bugs Hugging – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Pink; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; Black Brads; Sizzix Embossing Folder; Red Grosgrain Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Hello There!

Hi all, I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!

A few weeks ago I was checking out the blog updates on my Google reader when I came across Alison of Stamping When I Can blog … she had a Me Likey post … and one of those items I definitely liked!!!

That link led me to “The Red Haired Girl” blog where she was showing her Easel Top Matchbook Box that she created. Wow! I needed a handmade gift to make to use as a gift exchange with a group of friend that I met up with each month to use for our Christmas Luncheon we had last week. As soon as I saw this idea I knew exactly what I was going to create and set to work!

Elena had included a link with instructions on how to create the matchboxes using the scorpal, however as I had the Sizzix Matchbox Die I decided to use that to create my matchboxes. I tried to keep it all Stampin’ Up …. as I knew this is what my friends would want …. and did pretty well till I got to the finishing touches …. ooops! I know the girls who get this won’t mind that I strayed a little hehe.

Here is another view of my easel matchbook box, I copied the idea of having the sentiment at the back of the box rather than on the front. For this version of easel card I think it is a great idea.

Recipe:

Stamps: Cheep Talk & Oval Alls – Stampin’ Up

Paper: White; Blue; Green; DP

Other: Black Ink; Blue Ink; Green Ink; Circle Nestabilities; Green Grosgrain Ribbon; Border Punch; Blue Brads; Cuttlebug Corner Die; Foam Tape

Pig Out!

Hi all!

I have been playing again … what’s new ha! hehe!! This week the challenge over on the Totally Stampalicious blog is to keep it simple. I think I did that!

This time round I decided to play with Totally Stampalicious' Farmer Hawgt set … this just cracks me up! Love the sentiment too …. not sure that we need any encouragement to “pig out” though at this time of year right hehe!

Recipe:

Stamps: Farmer Hawgt – Totally Stampalicious

Paper: White; Black; Blue; DP

Other: Black Ink; Black Brads; Foam Tape; Copics

Cutie Shipping Tag Box

Hi again,

I have been playing with my Alota Rubber Stamps “Christmas Cuties” stamps again … I just love these cute little kids.

This time round I decided to make one of the Shipping Tag Boxes that was this week’s Technique Challenge over on SCS. You can find out how to create one of these here. These are sooooooo easy to create!

Here is a side on view of my shipping tag box. I also got to play with one of my new Martha Stewart Border Punches I got this week … this one is the Stars border punch.

Oh before I go I wanted to share a brand new unmounted stamp set that Alota Rubber Stamps just released. This set is called “Aussie Snowman”, this was designed by a friend of mine, Susan Uncle. I thought it was such a fun set that I just had to share it with you all. I don’t have the stamps yet so I can’t create a card to share here just now but as soon as I do I will.

This is pretty much what a snowman would look like if we attempted to try and make one down here especially at this time of year, although I haven’t ever seen snow where I live …. a bucket full of water or mush on the ground.

Recipe:

Stamps: Christmas Cuties – Alota Rubber Stamps

Paper: Olive; Red; Eskimo Kisses DP – Basic Grey

Other: Black Ink; MS Star Border Punch; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Tag Corner Punch; Hole Punch; Red Ribbon; Foam Tape; Copics

Newlyweds!

Hi everyone,

Of course it is Wednesday which means it is time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge & Blog Hop. If you didn't hop onto my blog via Christi Thorsen's blog then you might want to hop back over to the very start of the blog hop which is at Christie Ortman's blog.

This week it is Christie’s turn to issue the challenge which is to make 6 x 6 scrapbook page. Now just so you all know ….. I DON’T scrapbook!!!!!!! I know many of you do and that is fine, but I just don’t and to make matters worse, the majority of photos I take are of my cards/projects not people! Anyway never one to shirk a challenge, I did my page. I used a photo from my daughters wedding from last year … I can’t believe it is now just over a year since the wedding …. doesn’t time fly!

I used Paper Pretties new “Time For Cake” set to embellish my scrapbook page. This time round I used the cake as is just adding the flowers at the top so it resembled the cake in the photo … just a little anyway.

Want to play along with us
How to Enter: Create a card using the challenge above and any Paper Pretties stamp set(s) you have. Upload your project to the Paper Pretties gallery. Please include it in the Weekly Challenges category and use keyword PWC81.
Deadline: 6pm EST Tuesday, December15th.
Prize: $15.00 coupon to the Paper Pretties Boutique.

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Paper Pretties Design team to see what they came up with for this challenge.

• Christie Ortman
• Julie Masse
• Jana Weaver
• Jackie Rakoski
• Christi Thorsen
• Frances Byrne (you are here!)
• Heather Lee-Reppen
• Wendy Bond
• Kristy Ketterlin
• Jane Matsumoto
• Jennifer Greco

Now to continue on the hop you need to head on over to Heather Lee-Reppen’s blog to see what she has created for this week’s challenge

Recipe:
Stamps: Time for Cake  - Paper Pretties
Paper: White; Brown; Blue; DP – Three Bugs In A Rug                           Other: Black Ink; Spellbinders Fancy Tags; Oval Punch; Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; MS Scallop Dot Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics